AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA RTX A5000
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Apr 2021
Generation
Solar System
Quadro Ampere
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1695 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
8192
TMUs
48
256
ROPs
16
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
6 MB
SM Count
-
64
Tensor Cores
-
256
RT Cores
-
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
GA102
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
-
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
230W
Outputs
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
-
550 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
CUDA
-
8.6